On 16/01/15 07:53, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:24:59 UTC+1, wrote:
This may be a bit late but thought you might like to know my experiences with Homebase and Schreiber.
No, life is too short to tell you the whole story so here's the summary...
Delivery 17th Jan.
Fitters started 21st Jan with expected completion on the 25th.
It's now the beginning of June and it's not finished!
Is this just a few units?
Nope... £20,000's worth.
So if you haven't decided yet
DON'T DO IT!!
And if you have ..... Good luck

Any joy now?I'm just about to order the Homebase/Schrieber combination.


£20k ???

My kitchen cost less than that including fitting the units and worktop
and the units are custom made out of yellow pine with zero MDF or chip.

Just goes to show...

On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:53:07 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:24:59 UTC+1, wrote:
This may be a bit late but thought you might like to know my experiences with Homebase and Schreiber.
No, life is too short to tell you the whole story so here's the summary....
Delivery 17th Jan.
Fitters started 21st Jan with expected completion on the 25th.
It's now the beginning of June and it's not finished!
Is this just a few units?
Nope... £20,000's worth.
So if you haven't decided yet
DON'T DO IT!!
And if you have ..... Good luck

Any joy now?I'm just about to order the Homebase/Schrieber combination.

Note its all just branding. Home Retail Group own Argos and Homebase, and they own the Schreiber brand which they can stamp on anything they want. At least the brand has more history than the B&Q made-up Cooke & Lewis brand (for which an advertising company won an award !)
Simon.

On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 9:19:43 AM UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 16/01/15 07:53, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:24:59 UTC+1, wrote:
This may be a bit late but thought you might like to know my experiences with Homebase and Schreiber.
No, life is too short to tell you the whole story so here's the summary...
Delivery 17th Jan.
Fitters started 21st Jan with expected completion on the 25th.
It's now the beginning of June and it's not finished!
Is this just a few units?
Nope... £20,000's worth.
So if you haven't decided yet
DON'T DO IT!!
And if you have ..... Good luck

Any joy now?I'm just about to order the Homebase/Schrieber combination.


£20k ???

My kitchen cost less than that including fitting the units and worktop
and the units are custom made out of yellow pine with zero MDF or chip.

Just goes to show...

I hope they waited for the "sale" to come around.
My kitchen cost about 4 grand including appliances. So if someone has a kitchen 5 times the size of mine, I suppose it would cost 20 grand !
Good point about custom stuff often being cheaper than you think though.
Simon.

On 16/01/15 11:09, sm_jamieson wrote:

I hope they waited for the "sale" to come around.
My kitchen cost about 4 grand including appliances. So if someone has a kitchen 5 times the size of mine, I suppose it would cost 20 grand !
Good point about custom stuff often being cheaper than you think though.

It still wasn't cheap - not like as you say, waiting for a sale.

We made the decision to pay over the odds for solid wood as we expect
this to outlive us, so in effect I can guarantee we would have gone
through 2-3 regular kitchens in the next few decades - as it can be
repainted and if necessary repaired if it gets tired or damaged.

So assume we live that long, it should factor out about the same.

sm_jamieson wrote:
On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:53:07 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:24:59 UTC+1, wrote:
This may be a bit late but thought you might like to know my experiences with Homebase and Schreiber.
No, life is too short to tell you the whole story so here's the summary...
Delivery 17th Jan.
Fitters started 21st Jan with expected completion on the 25th.
It's now the beginning of June and it's not finished!
Is this just a few units?
Nope... £20,000's worth.
So if you haven't decided yet
DON'T DO IT!!
And if you have ..... Good luck

Any joy now?I'm just about to order the Homebase/Schrieber combination.

Note its all just branding. Home Retail Group own Argos and Homebase, and they own the Schreiber brand which they can stamp on anything they want. At least the brand has more history than the B&Q made-up Cooke& Lewis brand (for which an advertising company won an award !)
Simon.


The Homebase stuff I looked at had very thin shelves which would not
take our loadings. Also they used upward opening doors which most women
can't reach. Very pretty but crap.

replying to Stephen, andrew wrote:
am fitting a schreiber kitchen now and the cabinet instructions are very poor
indeed and non existent in some cases.

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replying to Stephen, Not happy wrote:
I am in the process of having the schreiber kitch installed. Whatever you do
dont i am still into getting it done for the last 12 months .still incomplete
5 deliveries of wrong items broken items missing items its a damn nightmare
slap happy approach with total incompetance actual installation started may
1st and is still not finished but kitchen is functional


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replying to Stephen, Robert Barnes wrote:
Had issues with the newton abbott homebase, as in the kitchen designer who
can't copy a hand drawn plan & lost 100mm. They were told there would be a
long delay between the purchase & the deivery... but still had phone calls
about 'when can we deliver it'. Also they didn't order enough back stand for
the quartz worktops. Also difficult to get hold of as the kitchen 'expert'
isn't working or in today/ on holiday

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Something must be wrong this thread is only a few years old ie 2014.
The usual posts from this broken interface to usenet I saw was written by
Fred Flintstone.
Brian

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replying to Stephen, Robert Barnes wrote:
Had issues with the newton abbott homebase, as in the kitchen designer
who
can't copy a hand drawn plan & lost 100mm. They were told there would be a
long delay between the purchase & the deivery... but still had phone calls
about 'when can we deliver it'. Also they didn't order enough back stand
for
the quartz worktops. Also difficult to get hold of as the kitchen 'expert'
isn't working or in today/ on holiday

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